How to Spend Someone Else's Money

Ever found a fortune or something of great value that is not yours? Lucky you?

If the owner is unknown to you, what do you do?   

Nancy finds such an unclaimed fortune and wrestles with the notion of telling someone, or keeping silent.

In this peculiar situation, Nancy knows her husband would not approve of her keeping the money and so keeps him in ignorance whilst she works out what to do with it. Her husband dies never knowing that his wife has a fortune hidden in the house.

Can Nancy find a way of laundering the money and banking it legitimately?

Along the way, Nancy meets a friend who is having a problem with a baby and somehow Nancy feels an inexplicable psychic connection to this child, especially when she realises the child was born on the same day and at the same time that her husband passed away. As the child grows Nancy takes over financing his education and puts him through university and then on to medical school where he becomes a prominent physician.

Humanity

Many of the difficulties we face in life are within ourselves. It is the constant war within that exhausts so many people. If we are to make our way to higher ground, we must come to terms with the many weaknesses of the human condition. Arrogance, that sense of superiority, greed, and envy are just a few. We must reach out beyond these things to the soul of the being if we are to have any hope of finding who we are. If we make contact, we will find a spiritual space where we can thrive, where we can expand our horizons, come to terms with, except that we are just one part of nature journeying through the greater scheme of things. To accept is to be at one. It is not easy, in many ways, we are groping in the dark, not sure what we want, not sure that we want to find it. This is where humanity is stationed. For what it is worth, I believe we are part of something greater. Something beyond our human comprehension. That is what this collection of poetry is about. Reaching out to that something; that something other.

Humour of a Housewife

Do you ever feel like your husband’s antics have pushed you to the brink of madness? If so, you’ll find comfort in Humour of a Housewife, a collection of witty poems that hilariously capture the trials and tribulations of daily life. From navigating the chaos of kids to the misadventures of a less-than-perfect spouse, these poems offer a humorous take on the ups and downs of being a housewife. So pour yourself a glass of wine, sit back, and let the laughter begin!

Hundred Shades of Green

A medical doctor, hiding from his past in the Amazon Rainforest where he becomes a valued member of an Indigenous village.

The son of his estranged son living a carefree life in Rio de Janeiro, studying law when he isn't partying.

The daughter of an Indigenous Village Chief bringing great change to their lives.

Jason and Bellann become a force for change, fighting corruption and greed in their quest for justice for the Indigenous tribes of Brazil and the survival of the human race.

Hung Out to Dry

April 2018. Two and a half years have passed since the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Barbados’ Prime Minister, Jeffrey Motby. His surprisingly quick and full recovery had enabled him, just eight months later, to lead his Barbados United Party (BUP) to a third successive general election victory. Policies and projects were working. The UK vehicle investment project he had directly masterminded had reduced unemployment to just over eight per cent. England’s Test cricket team was set to visit Barbados to play a resurgent West Indies. A royal visit to Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines was scheduled and the Prime Minister’s daughter planned to marry shortly. There were no known crises on the horizon.

But situations can change quickly. Major, unexpected actions disrupt the best laid plans of the government. A perfect storm? The Organisation comes to town; there is a mid-morning prisoners’ escape and the un-explained disappearance of a senior government official. A botched night robbery in a prime tourism nightspot is also witnessed by a top overseas journalist. A response by government is required as other scheduled sporting and entertainment events become part of the mix. Barbados’ long-established reputation for stability, hospitality and security is threatened by this convergence of events.

The Prime Minister, also the current CARICOM Chairman, demands rapid answers and an early return to normalcy. Events inadvertently connect a senior BIB operative who is hung out to dry. Nothing is what it seems. Can Barbados’ robust law enforcement agencies combine to save the country’s stellar reputation?

Hurricane Maggie

British-born Maggie Barrington has become a very successful New York lawyer. When her marriage breaks up, she goes to Cuba, ostensibly on business but secretly in search of her cantankerous Marxist concert pianist father who decamped to Havana when she was a child and whom she has cut out of her life.When she finally tracks him down, she is pitched into a series of life-changing dramas that entangle her not only with her new-found family but also in the shadowy life of Cuba itself. She crosses barriers that in the past would have been unthinkable and that turn her into someone forced to try to flee the island to escape justice.As the hurricane season whips through Havana, Maggie discovers a buried part of her old self.“What a piece of storytelling... Strong passions, terrific characters...fascinating Cuba, a hurricane that made me feel that I was in the thick of it...the perfectly accomplished full circle of it all!”– Hilary Norman, bestselling novelist“I was riveted... Great story, great characters, great sense of place...tension superbly maintained throughout!”– Timothy West, actor

I Am Therian

Mina Michaels wakes up at Clandestine Arts Academy only to realise it’s a place she’s all too familiar with but not what the brochure makes it out to be. Persuaded to enrol, she learns this place holds the key to her forgotten past. Enthralled by a world of spirit walkers, royals and alphas, her journey becomes a race against time to unleash her inner spirit and bring calm to a world breaking out in chaos whilst in the midst of finding true love. You too can join the main protagonist in escaping reality to discover the mysterious world that exists parallel to the one you know.

I Feel Safe in the Church

Would little Annie ever be happy again, after losing her mother and father who hated her? She was so frightened of them that she ran away and hid in her local church, slept on a bench with just a packet of biscuits and water to live on. Her only friend was Tommy, but then Patch comes into her life – a dog who also has lost his owner and is in need of love. But Patch is a clever dog and uncovers lots of mysteries in the village of Burgh St Paul.

I Turned a Corner Once

I Turned a Corner Once is a collection of poems that explore the experiences and relationships of the author over the course of fifty years. From their youth in a small coastal town in Cornwall in the 1950s, to hippy collectives and their career as an airline pilot, the poems in this book cover a wide range of themes including romance, humor, and the unknown consequences of our actions. Through it all, the author learns to embrace change and instinctively "turn the corner" towards new experiences. This book is a deeply personal and introspective look at the journey of self-discovery.

I'll Draw an Iris on my Heart and send it to You

The thing about poetry is, that
She has but the simplest of rules.
She does not have to rhyme,
Nor be written in clear lines.
She doesn’t even need true letters,
All she has to do, is move the spirit, break the heart and mend an injured soul.

Helene J. Storm

I, A Dumb Boy

“‘Oh, Thomas, do you recall the miracle you performed?’

Yes, I did recall the miracle, if that’s what it was. I recalled other things too. Fergus and the secret chamber. Caty and her still-born child. My sister’s treacherous kiss.”

Norfolk, Virginia, 1775. Thomas Starling is fourteen years old but has never found the courage to speak to anyone except his older sister, Bethany. A visit from a stranger one night triggers a series of events that leads them to embark on a journey to the city of New York. There they encounter a community of outcasts and a demoralised army preparing for a British attack. Thomas yearns to be free of his boyhood and his dependence on his sister, but he is haunted by bitter memories of that terrifying night on the Georgian frontier … the girl in blue, the burning barn, the hanging corpse. His past is finally catching up with him.

I, Jandamarra

Jandamarra is an aboriginal warrior of the spiritual Kimberley area of Australia, home to the tribe known as the Bunuba people. Jandamarra is a legendary hero of the 1890s known to his people as a Jalgangurru, a magic man, due to his extraordinary skills and abilities.

He is a cheeky, likeable boy, and a quick learner. At around 12 years of age, Jandamarra, named Pigeon by the whitefellas, begins working on a sheep station, where he learns to shoot, ride horses, and live among the whitefellas. These are skills which will serve him well in his manhood. He is popular among whitefellas and enjoys the excitement and movement of their way of living, but the time comes when he must return to his tribe for initiation into manhood.

Jandamarra is torn between black and white cultures. But how can he belong to two different worlds with each pulling at his loyalties? How can he be accepted by one without rejecting the other?

This powerfully spiritual story of the legendary Jandamarra is based on extensive research of people and events.